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Posts Tagged ‘sustainable development’
Green living, Pollution, Mar 26th, 2012,
The world is facing a mounting crisis. In recent years we have experienced a combination of a global financial crisis, a food crisis, volatile oil prices, accelerating ecosystem degradation and an increasing number of climate-induced extreme weather events. These multiple and inter-related crises call into question the ability of a growing human population to live peacefully and sustainably on this planet, and demand the urgent attention governments and citizens around the world. –Earth Summit 2012 website The UN Conference on Sustainable Development, aka Earth Summit 2012, aka Rio+20, takes place in Rio de Janeiro Brazil from June 20-22nd. Rio+20 is…
Tags: Brazil, Earth Summit, Guanabara, Rio de Janeiro, Rio+20, sustainable development, UN
Green living, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 8th, 2009,
Defra, the U.K.’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, runs a number of campaigns and projects around themes of environmental responsibility sustainable development. Here are two videos produced by Defra: The first is a very slick production about a Defra project in cooperation with the Indian government concerning India’s textile industry. Termed the U.K. – India Sustainable Development Dialogue, the aim of the project is to encourage clothing design and manufacturing with an emphasis on ethics and sustainability. The second video gives an overview of the concept of sustainable development and is a bit of a ‘corporate video’ but…
Tags: clothing, Defra, India, sustainable development, UK
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 7th, 2009,
Portugal is not a country you often find taking up headlines in major international news sources. But the small Iberian nation has recently been home to two major events focusing on the subject of the environment, especially sustainable development. From November 20th – 22nd Portugal’s capital city of Lisbon hosted Planet Earth Lisbon 2009, or PEL2009, a conference celebrating the end of the International Year of Planet Earth. A project by the Earth Sciences for Society, the International Year of Planet Earth is actually three years long, lasting from 2007 to 2009 and ‘aims to ensure greater and more effective…
Tags: cop15, copenhagen, environmental, International Year of the Planet, Planet Earth Lisbon 2009, Portugal, sustainable development
Green living, Politics, Aug 13th, 2009,
When London bid for the 2012 Olympics against other cities like New York, Paris, Madrid and Moscow, they touted that if the Summer Olympics were to be held in their city, it would be the first environmentally friendly games ever. Perhaps the Olympic Committee was quite convinced, as London won in the final round, beating Paris by 54 to 50 votes. Looking at the history of the Olympics, the games were really so much simpler when they first started (and it wasn’t just because of the naked, muscled men rolling around the dirt, either). Athletes from the various city-states of…
Tags: 2012, environment, london, olympics, sustainable development
